Pragmatist aesthetics
Subtitle: living beauty, rethinking art
By: Richard Shusterman.
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Aesthetics.; Pragmatism.
Description: Discusses traditional topics of aesthetics such as the definition of art, aesthetic experience and value, form and unity, interpretation, cognitive and moral worth of art; as well contemporary issues such as the institutionalization and cultural oppression of art, the aesthetic legitimacy of popular culture, and the ethical art of living beauty through the stylization of conduct and the aesthetic construction of the self -Blurb.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-310) and index.